Santa, that jolly old elf, will parade in downtown Sacramento rain or shine (but not if there are high winds) accompanied by marching bands, horses, antique vehicles and other merrymakers at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 10. Find a spot along the route, which launches at 14th and N streets and travels west to Ninth Street where it turns north. At L, the parade turns left and proceeds to Fourth Street. www.sacholidays.com

Jack London Square in Oakland has long failed to take off as a destination despite years of city revitalization efforts. Now, it overflows with restaurants and nightlife as Oakland rides the Bay Area tech resurgence.

For centuries, nomadic huntsmen high in the cold Mongolian mountains of Altai would climb steep crags, gingerly approach an eagle’s nest, capture a baby eaglet and train it to kill foxes for fur and food. For seven years the bird would serve its master and then be released back to the wild.

There’s never a hair out of place in “Miss Sloane,” a painstakingly slick political thriller from director John Madden about a brilliant lone-wolf lobbyist consumed with the win. It’s a wannabe Aaron Sorkin-meets-Shonda Rhimes glimpse into the hollow and cynical world of inside the Beltway dealings from first-time screenwriter Jonathan Perera that’s never quite snappy, insightful or salacious enough to be as fun or damning as it should be.

Content-wise, there isn’t a whole lot of difference between the crude sexual humor and pervasive vulgarity of the recent “Bad Santa 2” and this week’s “Office Christmas Party.” Both Christmas-themed comedies traffic in the groin-fixated humor, debauchery, slapstick violence, substance abuse and corrosive foul language that have come to characterize much of the modern R-rated comedy world.

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When a wounded Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) tries to entice a cautious Ana Steele (Dakota Johnson) back into his life, she demands a new arrangement before she will give him another chance. As the two begin to build trust and find stability, shadowy figures from Christian’s past start to circle the couple, determined to destroy their hopes for a future together. Release date: Feb. 10, 2017.